IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Realplayer
22 Oct 2018
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Five reason to think twice about the un"s sustainable development. Goals: hickle, growth does not reduce poverty. Zero draft promotes growth as the main solution to poverty, but this relationship is highly tenuous. While global gdp has growth by 271% since 1990, the number of people living on less than /day has increased by more than 370 million -clearly growth is not working. Under best case scenarios the picture looks a bit more promising but even so the poorest 60% of humanity receive only 5% of all new income generated by global growth. Why do the sdgs rely on growth as a poverty-reduction strategy? bc the prospect of growth allows our leaders to sidestep the challenge of having to distribute resources more fairly. Problem is that even given the best case scenario mentioned above will take 207 years to eliminate poverty with this strategy.
